Viva Italia on-line, why we Japanese love Italy so much?
2020年5月16日 Latin Culture
Some say that we are attracted with completely different characters, and others says we would feel comfortable with people whom we have some similarities with. This has been obvious fact that many Japanese like Italy, not only as a tourist destination but also as a country that we are very much attracted in many ways. …
Natural born comedian
2020年5月15日 Japanese Culture
In Japan, culture and personality is not simply unique. Depending on regions, culture and mindsets are very different. Especially greater Osaka, we call Kansai area, its culture and values are extremely different from those of Tokyo. For instance, the Kansai dialect is distinct and very different from Tokyo, we presume to be the standard. One …
Claim JP media for fairness, Chiba Mayor’s courage
2020年5月14日 Japanese Society
Chiba Mayor Mr. Kumagaya mentioned his opinion on media’s fairness regarding this COVID19 pandemic. This was well received by Japanese people and some deeply agreed with Kumagaya, and others encouraged Kumagaya to release his ideas more. Chiba is the fourth largest prefecture in greater Tokyo area in terms of population, and Narita airport and Tokyo …
How does the Virtual Tour works?
2020年5月12日 Japanese Culture
Virtual tour to Italy well accepted! Hiro, who shared his experienced and views with me over M&A transactions in Japan, asked me to arrange Virtual Italian tour. It was May 2nd and one week later, we successfully arranged our first Italian virtual tour, together with my friend, Rie, who lives in Milan and a professional …
Where the 200,000 USD personal reserve comes from ?
2020年5月11日 Japanese Society
In 2019, Japanese government released a caution to the people: Look you may end up with no- reserve for your after retirement life, get yourself prepared with the sufficient fund of 20 mil JPY. This is so-called 20 mil issues in Japan. I have been wondering where this figure comes from. During this Corona Pandemic, …
Why 70% of M&A deals fail?
2020年5月9日 Investment Highlights
I attended a seminar arranged by Hiro*, a friend of mine, who has been a super active SDG advisor. The topic was M&A. He mentioned that almost 70 percent of M&A deals end up unsuccessful. There should be some definitions of “unsuccessful deals” however, from my point of view, I feel that means poor financial …
Fundamental reasons to cause the hotel bankruptcy
2020年5月8日 Market Trend
Under Corona measurement, we ‘ve seen two major hotel operator bankruptcy cases here in Japan. One is WBF, http://www.wbfresort.com/, one of the major, three star hotel operators in Japan. Their main targets are business customers, inbound tourists in major cities and tourist destinations. They have been opening new hotels over domestic market. This looks a …
Labor market outlook, lack of human resource looks inevitable?
2020年5月6日 Japanese Society
This is the research made by the Japan Institute of Labor Policy Training Centre. They said, under the zero-growth scenario, the number of workers in 2017 was 65.3 million, but is expected to reach 58.80 million in 2030. It is calculated that the labor force of 7.22 million people will be insufficient for the current …
The air, what drives Japanese, the findings from Shichihei Yamamoto
2020年5月5日 Japanese SocietyUncategorized
For those who would like to understand more Japanese people’s mentality for you to do good business here in Japan, I would suggest the book written by Shichihei Yamamoto. Shichihei has the Western name, Isaiah Ben-Dasan and wrote books in English about The Japanese and the Jews. He has been well-known for his business theory …
Why those fund managers left?
2020年4月23日 Japanese SocietyMarket Trend
The oil future index has sharply dropped to minus and the global sentiment has been quickly moving to “stay away from energy industry” mood. What would come up as our main concern for Japanese? The impact on actual Japanese economy has been limited as the logistic system and the storage capacity for oil should not …
